This Week’s Independent Thinker

This pandemic has been tragic for a long time, so it was with relief that we read about Captain Sir Tom Moore last April....

This Week’s Independent Thinker

Every time we hear “The Star-Spangled Banner,” our country’s anthem, we wish it were “America the Beautiful.” Then at last Wednesday’s inauguration of Joe Biden...

This Week’s Independent Thinker

He didn’t lie to get out of the draft. He got in the face of the draft, calling war immoral and going to jail...

This Week’s Independent Thinker

New York high school teacher Shaina Harrison is on a mission to explain that having a gun do your talking always comes to no...

This Week’s Independent Thinker

The Grizzly Bear is California’s state animal. Its likeness is on the state flag and seal. This is not about grizzly bears, but it happened...

This Week’s Independent Thinkers

After all the yucky things we say about corporations pretending to be real people, we were pleasantly surprised that General Mills Canada has taken...

This Week’s Independent Thinkers

Every Wednesday morning at 9:30, troubadors meet for an hour-long rehearsal starting with a group warm up where they get vocal spurring and learn...

This Week’s Independent Thinkers

Our Parks commission has meetings, called workshops but they qualify as meetings because the commissioners are meeting as we see it. They walk around...

This Week’s Independent Thinker

Our editorial cartoonist, Wolf Grulkey, owns a food truck in Alma, Ark., called the Hungry Wolf. A couple of weeks ago he loaded his...

This Week’s Independent Thinker

Shania Clifford is a high school junior and SkillsUSA masonry student who won the gold medal in Ohio’s Skills USA competition by 72 points. “She...